Re: [PLUG] Open Source IT Asset Management

I've messed around a bit with Snipe-IT, which I liked a lot but didn't meet my oddly specific and completely unrealistic needs. I was trying to do some asset management around servers/VM/colo hosts/etc, not stuff around an office on a LAN. That's where Snipe is good, local auto discovery, and exactly what you're trying to do.

There are a few others on this list https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin#it-asset-management but I haven't tried them at all, but for no good reason, just my needs changed.

I know you said open source, but I'd also suggest Spiceworks. It's free as in beer and generally good at doing a bunch of stuff. At the very least, I'd say try it out and you'll get an idea of comparable software. Same thing with ManageEngine products like AssetExplorer, free to use for some amount of time then limited after that, but you'll get to understand what the paid features are and what fits your needs. Unless you know/use something already and know what you're looking for, then completely ignore that last bit :)

-Chris T.

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:47 AM Will via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

Asset management? Not really sure odoo is the way to go. But I would research this link and see if it can be used like asset management. https://www.odoo.com/page/warehouse

No reason a little creativity won't make it work. As far as a bare bones asset management? Postgress. Making a web front end is cake. If you want a dirty trick for pulling system info and seeing when they last checked in, puppet with a base install of Foreman. I have a script that would check for last check in and it wouldn't be hard to pull facts from systems.

The biggest question I have is what is the scope of the asset management? What kind of reclamation or inventory is needed? What types of equipment?

Speaking from my manufacturing and warehousing background, all you need is a database and a barcode scanner (keyboard wedge). 90% of what you want can be done with a database and really simple programming.

-Will C
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 02:53 KP via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
I think Odoo (formerly OpenERP) has some form of asset management. Not sure if its one of the free modules though.
On January 22, 2020 10:08:44 PM EST, Thomas Delrue via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations for Open Source IT Asset Management
systems? We'd like to be able track the different assets we have and
have a check-in/check-out functionality for 'loaner' devices as well.
If it can generate bar/QR codes to put on the assets, that'd be a great
feature too.

Thanks
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